General Election June 2017

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Ste_S in reply to @Oliver Schick

For an impartial news organisation, there's been some strange political reporting from the BBC. There was Laura Kussenberg who was seemingly the mouthpiece of the PLP during the #chickencoup.

Perhaps more importantly, the BBC gave Farrage a platform a few years back at a time when he had no MPs and a tiny vote share. If it wasn't for the publicity that the BBC gave him, I don't think we would have had Brexit.

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mespilus in reply to @Ste_S

It was the fault of the three main parties,
who never took the Euro elections seriously after the Greens won 15%(?) in the late '80s.

All three accepted low turnouts as inevitable allowing the kipper rabble to gain representation and then use their EU funding to keep their nationalist agenda heard at home.

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in reply to @mespilus

Huh. Interesting. This is a theory I'd not heard before. By ignoring the EU elections, the major parties allowed a marginal party the opportunity to legitimize itself (and siphon off funds).

There is so much the UK fucked up in regard to its relationship with the EU.

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